I grew up in the Town of Southeast in Putnam County.  It was called Southeast because it was the southeast township in the Philips Patent in New York State.  We lived about two miles from the little village of Brewster, which was on the other side of Marvin's Mountain from our house.  When we walked to town we would tell Mom that we were going "down street."  That meant Main Street.  There was a bank in the middle of the street across from the railroad station.  They later turned it into city hall.  Brewster was a small village of about three thousand -- much smaller than Marlo Thomas made it out to be in her 1960's era televsion show That Girl. We lived west of Brewster in a little housing addition developed by Bob Gilstead on land purchased from the Bookbinder's estate at the bottom o... 09/06/2008